Are You Really Going to Eat That?

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My daughters were just saying that cats won't eat carrots, but I have known some felines to at least try them! My mother-in-law's cats were terribly spoiled with table scraps. They must have been related to Garfield, because spaghetti was one of their favourite dishes. And as she got older and indulged them more, they'd beg ice cream from her at bedtime every night. The oddest thing they ate, though, was citrus. I can remember one of them eating grapefruit segments. I've had several cats that had an addiction for green olives. One would roll the olives around on the floor like a toy, rubbing his head all over them and sucking the pimento out of the middle. It was almost like he was on catnip! Sometimes he'd eat the whole olive, but a lot of the time he just sucked at it and ate the pimento, leaving the crushed plaything discarded on the kitchen floor. Another cat had a fetish for dried tea bags. He'd break into the kitchen cabinet and knock the garbage bin over, just so he could play with them. He used the tea like catnip. He's eat a little, but mostly he'd just scatter it all over my carpet. I tried everything to keep him out of the garbage, but he was a very determined little kitty... What about you? What sorts of odd treats or foods do your cats like? If you don't have cats, maybe you have a friend or loved one whose cat eats bizarre foods.... [Photo by Henrik Veres/Pixabay, CC0]